By The egg hunt is on in downtown Los Altos
The Los Altos Village Association and downtown merchants are once again inviting local kids and their parents to celebrate Easter with an annual egg hunt and a host of other fun activities.
Festivities get under way 10 a.m., April 7, with the egg hunt, which takes place in front of stores along Main and State streets.
The eggs will be filled with either candy or gift certificates.
The Main Street hunt is for ages 1-6, while the State Street hunt is for children ages 7-10.
Activities will also include bunny ear making, face painting, a jelly bean guessing contest, a prize raffle and carrot cake tasting.
The event will last approximately 45 minutes to an hour. Children should bring their own baskets for the hunt.
Snapdragon Puppet Productions, featuring Roger Mara and Elizabeth Luce, is scheduled to provide entertainment.
The event is free. For more information, call the Los Altos Village Assocation at 949-5282.
Los Altos Art Docents show
The Los Altos School District annual Art Show is scheduled April 5-8 at the Hillview Community Center, 97 Hillview Ave. The event will feature artwork from all K-8 students.
The Los Altos Art Docents present the show to bring public awareness of art in the school district, as well to showcase the students’ artwork.
Children can create crafts projects in the multipurpose room 1 to 3 p.m., April 7, and a storyteller will entertain 1:30-3:30 p.m., April 8.
The Art Show is open to the public 3-5 p.m., April 5 and 6, and 1 to 5 p.m., April 7 and 8. Admission is free.
Nominees needed for service award
The Silicon Valley Association of Realtors, Los Altos-Mountain View District, is looking for nominees for its 38th annual Community Service Award.
To qualify, nominees must have volunteered to enhance the quality, spirit and character of the local communities.
Nominations are being accepted no later than Monday. Send nominations to the association, attention Christine Moore, 345 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos 94022.
The award recipient and sponsor will be notified prior to the awards luncheon, set for May 1 at Michael’s at Shoreline restaurant.
Reservations to the luncheon can be made by calling Lori Ruiz at 949-9115 or lruiz@siliconvalley-realtors.org.
Federated Woman’s Club meets
Ginger Summit, gourd expert and author, is the guest speaker at the next meeting of the Federated Woman’s Club of Los Altos.
The meeting is scheduled 11:15 a.m., April 4, at Micahel’s at Shoreline restaurant in Mountain View.
Summit is scheduled to discuss craft techniques of turning a dry gourd into a work of art. Guests are welcome. For more information, call 948-3553.
MV parade set for April 28
Mountain View’s 23rd annual spring parade, with the theme “Put On A Happy Face,” will be held April 28.
Festivities will begin at noon with the parade route down Castro Street, starting at Evelyn Avenue and ending at City Hall. After the parade there will be entertainment, children’s carnival games, music and food.
Applications to participate in the parade are available at the Mountain View Community Center, 201 S. Rengstorff Ave., Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Application deadline is April 6.
Community prayer breakfast
Former San Francisco 49ers star Brent Jones highlights an annual Peninsula Community Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for 7 a.m., April 6, at Rickey’s Hyatt Hotel, 4219 El Camino Real.
The breakfast, sponsored by Straight Talk and the Los Altos Prayer Breakfast, features Jones, now a CBS broadcaster, as the keynote speaker.
Marshall Heller, a local entrepreneur and businesswoman, will also speak.
Tickets are $20. Reservations are required. For more information, call 323-8616.
Students’ committee needs volunteers
Many graduate students and scholars temporarily at Stanford University bring family members with them, who lack opportunities to practice their English language skills. They are often left without the resources to meet residents of the local communities.
The Community Committee for International Students, a volunteer organization based at Stanford, sponsors an English-in-Action program to address that problem.
The committee needs adult volunteers to dedicate an hour a week conversing in English with international visitors in an informal setting.
The initial meeting will be held at the Bechtel International Center on the Stanford campus. Subsequent meetings can be there or moved off-site depending on the participants.
For information or to volunteer, call 366-1925, 326-5252, or Ruth Bioletti, 941-6125.
E-mail notification at Los Altos library
The Santa Clara County Library recently began sending notices, such as titles of holds and overdue notices, to patrons via e-mail.
To sign up for e-mail notification, patrons should obtain a form at the Los Altos Library reference desk and turn it in at the circulation desk.
At the Woodland Library, patrons should ask at the circulation desk. Patrons who sign up will no longer receive such notices through the post office.
